well-motivated
Britishadjective
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"The fact that we have happy, healthy, well-motivated, highly productive staff is what we should all be aspiring to."
From BBC
Lee was “well-intentioned and well-motivated by that,” Bouchard continued.
From Washington Times
They include well-established facts—such as the tendency for red dwarf stars to emit strong flares and other stellar outbursts that could strip planets of their atmospheres—in addition to well-motivated speculations, such as asteroid impacts upon a young planet needing to be in a Goldilocks-like state of neither too numerous to disrupt biogenesis nor too sparse to starve prebiotic chemistry of molecular precursors thought necessary for life’s origins.
From Scientific American
Compared with some ideas, boson stars “are very concrete models that are theoretically sound and well-motivated,” Cunha says.
From Science Magazine
Many Russian units also have low morale, a depressed mood that contrasts sharply with Ukraine’s well-motivated forces.
From Seattle Times
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